anaheim-gazette 1923-03-08

OBSERVATIONS By Charles Kuchel An enterprising citizen who believes that Anaheim has passed the period when speechifying should be indulged in around the festive banquet board as to what is best for the city regard, ing its future growth sincerely be: lies the time has come for business men to get busy and take the bit in their teeth and get action—do a deed that will start the dollars rolling. This man says "Start a payroll." In fact he wants to see several goods sized payrolls started here. Listen to this: He favors buying forty or fifty acres of land near by, the money for its purchase to be raised by popular subscription. These sums may range from fifty to one thousand dollars, more or less. Then let this tract of land be subdivided, half of which to be laid out in building lots for work, ing men and home builders. These lots to be sold to the laboring classes for a price sufficient to pay for the entire tract. And now, here is the meat in the cocoanut. The remainder—or the oth. er half of the tract—to be given with out cost, to a refiable manufacturer who would erect thereon a genuine business enterprise. Some concern which would give employment to the people who buy these lots for home building—not for speculation. By this means, this enterprising citizen points out, the city gets a paying enterprise, which in turn provides the payroll. And as this enterprising citizen lighted a new cigar, he said tell this to the people of Anaheim. And he says for the welfare of the city by all means get action on it right away. I give him an inferior grade of fodder some is always left over in the man. ger.” Pleased patrons. A man from the big citp to the north of us, when asked of anybody hae been killed there that day, replied that there are so many hundreds that city folks pay so little attention when some unfortunate kicks off. Yet some people faor doing away with capital punisn ment. Lifting the lid. An alleged hammer murderess, (whom sope believe dead, while others say is in hiding in Mexico) is reported as being held below the Rio Grande as a hostage, to be swapped perhaps for some unfortunate hombre, who migh claim allegiance to the south ern republic, should he be caught in the meshes of the faw here. This gives a sort of a serio.comic aspect to our boasted purisprudence. Here's your hat—what's wour hurry. MIDNIGHT TRANSFER The subject under discussion by several Congressmen, sitting in a hote. lobby, was the different brands of hospitality. Nicholas Longworth of Ohio told this experience while driving with a friend through one of the southern states: "One night darkness overtook us while traveling along a lonesome road through a strip of seemingly interminable pine timber. After a couple of hours of slow plodding we saw a light ahead. When we reached the house I yelled like the Indians used to yell down in John Garner's state. A bewhiskered old fellow opened the front door and asked what we wontea. When I said we wanted to stay afi night, he looked us over mighty carefully and said: "Wal. I reckon I kin stand it if you kin." "We thanked him palitely and went in and found it was only a oneroom" "No evidence vv or grove in these reached its maxi production. What which pro. Jon has no yet been. I messor Valle pement station d day to take part tee meeting of th bureau at the bur where plans were county citrus surv. Eighteen growt the citrus wealth posed the comm county farm adv." TEXAS, TEXT The Houston, marks that alth in cotton manufactured in the Ur nuary, yet Houston the textile game knom "What line holders of Houston ing for, anyway? Perhaps they are some sort of fore few days ago S Texas led the fili American Mercha defeat of which w ing up of foreign crifice of America Texan spokesmen measures that en in American ship "Post" criticise li they withhold their hope of finding sment more promise our own borders? The business p munity or nation a of psychology. "So is he." It has policy of the south can buy the ches suance of that po By this means, this enterprising citizen points out, the city gets a paying enterprise, which in turn provides the payroll. And as this enterprising citizen lighted a new cigar, he said tell this to the people of Anaheim. And he says for the welfare of the city by all means get action on it right away. The accomplishment of this project can be easily attained by the business men of this city bp cooedating their efforts to seek the goal. The money required for the initial purchase price would come back to them by the sale of the land to the working men, who by doing so acquire homes for their families, while the merchants' rize would come in an increased number of patrons by creating a factory payroll. The extent to which this plan of endeavor for commercial expansion may be put is limitless, for there are plenty of worthy manufacturing concerns who would avail themselves of this opportunity to reap the benefit of their business successes, who in turn would enrich their benefactors by the creation of the payroll. The more the better. A guy who had the dust brushed off the tail of his coat by a fast moving machine at an intersection the other day, as he leaped to safety, inclines to the idea that the meek and lowly peasant is not given a square deal. A miss is as good as a mile. A citizen who formerly lived in Texas, after observing how frequent murders are committed in the larger cities here, says a little frontier frolic, as indulged in by the plains, men when horse stealing occurred too often, had a tendency to reduce the quine disappearances and horse thieves became scarcer than hens' teeth. This man thinks a little more speedy justice would help a whole lot in dealing with the lawless element that now has grown bold in defying the law. The uplift movement. Zero weather in the regions to the east and northwest is a great incentive to send people to the sunny skies of Southern California, and thousands are coming westward. This famed house I yelled like the Indians used to yell down in John Garner's state. A bewhiskered old fellow opened the front door and asked what we wonten. When I said we wanted to stay all night, he looked us over mighty carefully and said: "Wal. I reckon I kin stand it if you kin." "We thanked him palitely and went in and found it was only a oneroom cabin, just swarming with kiddies of all ages. There were six or eight in sight and others within hearing. We were disappointed by seeing only one bed and wondered if we would have to sit up in chairs all night. We were so dogtired and sleepy that we could scarcely hold our eyes open. "After giving us a good supper of hog and corncakes, the mother put the two youngest kids to bed. In less than three minutes they were sound asleep. She took them out and laid them over in a corner on the floor and put the next two in bed, and so on. "When all the little ones were asleep on the floor the old folks strolled out to the woodshed and told us we could use the bed. We hopped in without delay. "I imagine our surprise when we awoke at daylight the next morning and found ourselves lying over in the corner with the kids and the old man and woman snoring away in the bed" CITRUS SURVEY Orange county, credited with being the wealthiest valencia orange district in the world, is mapped for a citrus survey. The survey, which will take six weeks to complete, according to Professor R. S. Valle, citrus expert, probably will add further proof that the citrus groves of Southern California are in their prime and steadily increasing their maximum of production. "Surveys of San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties," said Professor Vale. "Showed that 35-year-old trees are higher producers than 25-year-old trees, and so on down the line." Zero weather in the regions to the east and northwest is a great incentive to send people to the sunny skies of Southern California, and thousands are coming westward. This famed section is getting its share of the pilgrims with the numbers ever increasing. The latch string always hangs out. As an evidence of the rapid strides being made by this city, it is recorded that residential lots in new subdivisions are bought up almost before the preliminary plots are perfected. Eat 'em while they're hot. An old timer says he meets so many new people here that when he chances to run across an old acquaintance he stops, grasps him by the hand, and looks upon him as a long lost brother. So long neighbor—take care of your self. An old-time former farmer, now on easy street through the discovery of oil on his land, tells a story of a liverman who once came to his place to buy some hay. Being shown a first-class article the stableman said, "Haven't you something not so good." He was given an affirmative answer and when asked for a reason, the townsman replied, "You see, it's like this. If I feed the good hay to the horse the animal eats it up clean, and when the owner calls for him he be, lieves I haven't fed his horse, but if ANAHEIM GAZETTE "No evidence was found of any tree or grove in these two counties having reached its maximum age or maximum production. What that age will be at which progeny will fail or retrogress has not yet been found here." Professor Valle of the Riverside experiment station arrived here Thursday to take part in the citrus committee, meeting of the Orange county farm bureau at the bureau office Santa Ana, where plans were to be laid for the county citrus survey. Eighteen growers, representative of the citrus wealth of the county, composed the committee, H. E. Walerg, county farm advisor, said. TEXAS, TEXTILES AND TARIFF The Houston, Texas, "Post" remarks that although a new record in cotton manufacturing was established in the United States in January, yet Houston delays getting into the textile game, and it wants to knom "What line of business are the holders of Houston's idle capital looking for, anyway?" Perhaps they are just waiting for some sort of foreign investment. A few days ago Senator Shepard of Texas led the filibuster against the American Merchant Marine bill, the defeat of which would mean the building up of foreign shipping and the sacrifice of American shipping. When Texan spokesmen in congress oppose measures that encourage investment in American shipping, how can the "Post" criticise its fellow citizens if they withhold their idle capital in the hope of finding some foreign investment more promising than one within our own borders? The business policies of any community or nation are largely a matter of psychology. "As a man thinketh, so is he." It has been the long-time policy of the south to "buy where you can buy the cheapest," and in pursuance of that policy the South has thought. Let the editor of the "Post" broaden his own vision until he can comprehend the benefits of development of industry anywhere in the United States, and he will be better able to urge the establishment of new or larger enterprises in his own locality. WILL SPEND LARGE SUM IN ORANGE COUNTY Edison Company Preparing to Make Many Extensions "Over one and one-half million dollars is the proportion of the Southern California Edison Company's budget for 1923, which will be allocated to the use of its Orange county district, which consists of the important towns of Santa Ana, Anaheim, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Laguna, Newport and Orange, and the intervening territory," said District Manager W. L. Delimling yesterday. "Of this, $1,150,000 will be spent in the High Sierra and upon the transmission lines that bring power to Santa Ana, and about $409,500 will be spent in the district itself. Out of the company's total budget of $25,000,000 for 1923, about $16,000,000 will be spent in the mountains for new power development and for transmission lines to bring the power to points of use. A total of 125,000 new horsepower will be added to the system during the year and Santa Ana's portion of this amount, when connected up and made to do service for various purposes during the year, will be adequate to take care of 5,700 new houses, 54 new factories, and to provide for an increased population of 28,000; beside providing for more intensive cultivation of 28,000 new acres of land that could be made more productive by electric irrigation. I do not believe, however, that this new provision for power, large as it is, will be more than adequate to take care of Santa Ana's growth during each month of the year. The present budget exceeds that colossal total by another $2,000,000. Of this sum, about $12,000,000 will be spent in hydro-electric development in the mountains; about $4,000,000 for transmission lines and system to bring the power to the principal points of use, and about $10,000,000 for local improvements in the various districts, such as new distribution lines, substations, offices stores, garages and improvements of this nature." MICHIGAN TO PICNIC The Michigan Association of Southern California which has been putting on your mammoth picnic reunions for the past twenty-five years now announces the annual picnic for all day, Saturday, (not Sunday), March 17th. We will celebrate St. Patrick's Day and green badges for old time's sake. The live wire president, Dr. M. R. In American shipping, how can the "Post" criticise its fellow citizens if they withhold their idle capital in the hope of finding some foreign investment more promising than one within our own borders? The business policies of any community or nation are largely a matter of psychology. "As a man thinketh, so is he." It has been the long-time policy of the south to "buy where you can buy the cheapest," and in pursuance of that policy the South has opposed a protective tariff which is designed to encourage buying at home, even if at a little higher price. "Build up home industries" has been the Republican policy, and that party has its strength almost entirely in the North. Northern people have acquired the habit of thinking in terms of construction. How to establish a new industry is a dominant subject in the minds of the leading men of every Northern community. It is a policy taught not only by political leaders but by business men without regard to politics. Of course, Southerners are not opposed to establishment of local industries, but they have never been trained by their leaders to think along that line. For many generations they were encouraged to produce raw cotton, ship that cotton out and buy manufactured goods wherever they could be bought the cheapest. In recent years the South is getting away from that idea, but it has been done in face of the opposition to its leaders. Even to the extent that the South has broken away from the teachings of its leaders, it has done so only where purely local interests are concerned. The South has not come to take a national view of economic problems, as the North always has. What the South needs is more political cemeteryes where unwise leaders can be buried, in obscurity, at least. Texas is delaying getting into the textile game, or any other line of manufacturing industry, that regrettable situation should be charged directly to the teachings of her own long-accepted schools of economic service for various purposes during the year, will be adequate to take care of 5,700 new houses, 54 new factories, and to provide for an increased population of 28,000; beside providing for more intensive cultivation of 28,000 new acres of land that could be made more productive by electric irrigation. I do not believe, however, that this new provision for power, large as it is, will be more than adequate to take care of Santa Ana's growth during the next two or three years. These figures, which are based on well proven tables, illustrate how rapidly the community is growing and the responsibility which rests upon the utility which serves the public to provide new capital and build so as to take care of its electrical needs. "New business additions are estimated to call for extensions of lines which will total up to $175,000", continued Mr. Deimling, "While $61,700 will be spent on renewals. At Newport a substation will be constructed at a cost of $20,000. New switching arrangements at Los Alamitos and at Fairview will be erected at an expenditure of $108,000, while the Santa Ana substation will be modernized. Increased capacity and production is to be provided at all stations and a modern new office will be provided at Orange. To erect a modern store building and garage, $31,000 is allotted and a large amount of new feeder construction and old feeder reconstruction, reinforcement, etc., is provided. Speaking of the company's general budget of $26,000,000 for the year 1923, which has just approved by the Board of Directors, District Manager Deimling said: "The appropriation for the year 1922 of $22,500,000 was by far the largest that had ever been made up to that time by any western utility. The receipt of a large amount of cash from the City of Los Angeles in payment for the purchase of its Los Angeles distributing system, made possible a little speeding of even this enormous program. Actual expenditures for new construction for 1922 were $24,000,000, an average of $2,- NO UNCEM J. E. SCHUMACHE "Everything In Real Estate" Wants Given Careful Attention By Specialists In Eve f All Classes Solicited. P. O. Box West Center Street PUBLIC SALES We have purchased 122,000 pair U.S. Army Munson last shoes, sizes 5 1-2 to 12 which was the entire surplus stock of one of the largest U.S. Government shoe contractors. This shoe is guaranteed one hundred per cent solid leather, color dark tan, bellows tongue, dirt and water proof. The actual value of this shoe is $6.00. Owing to this tremendous buy we can offer same to the public at $2.95. Send correct size. Pay postman on delivery or send money order. 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